Introduction

Youth & Adult Literacy Rates Datasets Link

The data is a CSV from Kaggle. This dataset contains data on literacy rates for youth and adults in various regions and countries.

Questions:

Why Literacy Project?

Growing up, many people in my community, neighborhood and family were not able to read and write. So I wanted to see the literacy rate in recent years and picked it for the project

Library Loading

• library(dplyr): using for data manipulation

• library(tidyverse): using to transform and better present data

• library(ggplot2): using for data visualization and plotting charts

• library(plotly): using for creating interactive web-based graphs

Reading in Data

## Rows: 4,955
## Columns: 7
## $ index           <dbl> 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, …
## $ Region          <chr> "Central and Southern Asia", "Central and Southern Asi…
## $ Country         <chr> "Afghanistan", "Afghanistan", "Afghanistan", "Afghanis…
## $ Year            <dbl> 2011, 2011, 2011, 2011, 2011, 2011, 2011, 2011, 2011, …
## $ Age             <chr> "15+", "15+", "15+", "15-24", "15-24", "15-24", "25-64…
## $ Gender          <chr> "female", "male", "total", "female", "male", "total", …
## $ `Literacy rate` <dbl> 0.1761206, 0.4541710, 0.3174112, 0.3211322, 0.6187907,…

## Rows: 202
## Columns: 9
## $ Country                           <chr> "Afghanistan", "Albania", "Algeria",…
## $ Region                            <chr> "SA", "ECA", "MENA", "ECA", "SSA", "…
## $ `Sub-region`                      <chr> NA, "EECA", NA, "WE", "ESA", NA, NA,…
## $ `Least developed countries (LDC)` <chr> "LDC", NA, NA, NA, "LDC", NA, NA, NA…
## $ `Africa sub-regions`              <chr> NA, NA, "Northern Africa", NA, "Sout…
## $ `Africa region`                   <chr> NA, NA, "All", NA, "All", NA, NA, NA…
## $ Total                             <dbl> 43, 98, 81, NA, NA, NA, NA, 99, NA, …
## $ Male                              <dbl> 55, 99, 87, NA, NA, NA, NA, 99, NA, …
## $ Female                            <dbl> 30, 98, 75, NA, NA, NA, NA, 99, NA, …

Countries with Higest Literacy rate

## # A tibble: 155 × 2
##    Country            mean_lit_rate
##    <chr>                      <dbl>
##  1 Ukraine                    1.00 
##  2 Uzbekistan                 0.999
##  3 San Marino                 0.999
##  4 Latvia                     0.999
##  5 Estonia                    0.999
##  6 Lithuania                  0.998
##  7 Kazakhstan                 0.997
##  8 Belarus                    0.997
##  9 Russian Federation         0.997
## 10 Cuba                       0.996
## # ℹ 145 more rows

Countries with Lowest Literacy rate

## # A tibble: 155 × 2
##    Country                  mean_lit_rate
##    <chr>                            <dbl>
##  1 Chad                             0.217
##  2 Guinea                           0.259
##  3 Niger                            0.278
##  4 Mali                             0.308
##  5 South Sudan                      0.308
##  6 Sierra Leone                     0.333
##  7 Burkina Faso                     0.334
##  8 Benin                            0.335
##  9 Afghanistan                      0.348
## 10 Central African Republic         0.371
## # ℹ 145 more rows

Male & Female Literacy rate by region

Measuring the progress of a country’s literacy rate over time

Comparing the literacy rates of different countries

Comparing the literacy rates of different age groups in a country